On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:24:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You give a long winded example sir, but you > slightly misunderstand the article. The problem > is not "excess baggage: unneeded apps, tools, > games" on Linux installations. It's the overall > faster *desktop* experience you get with windows > XP compared to Linux. >
Then I guess the title of this article was misleading :( Perhaps the newsforge people have a passion for FUD, don't you think? :P Let's see how XP and Linux beats up each other's crap on an equal playing field: qemu. I'm gonna run some tests: I just got a raw image installed with WinXP a few days ago, and tonight I'll make another one with Debian sid. I'll have both of them run under 2.6 *at the same time*, then one, then the other, and we'll see if I can login faster on a Gnome session than on a Windows BSOD session... (of course I can do this in an actual system, if anyone can spare me a box ;) > And the above comment is backed by using windows > XP(2 years) everyday and Linux(7 years) as a > desktop. > And mine comes from at least 10 years of Windows XPerience (not referring to the product, but to the whole lot of broken glass ;) plus a bit of DOS (I'm now dabbling FreeDOS nowadays, and maybe adopt dosemu at the Debian WNPP :D) and almost a year of Linux (its going to be 1 this August ;) > your other solutions are correct though, like > disabling uneeded services. > And that's true for *ALMOST* all OSes (except possibly Minix ;) > > hmm... 2GB? give you a tip: > > When installing Debian, it reboots and runs > tasksel where you can choose to install a mail > server, workstation, etc. Exit from it. You > still have roughly 50 to 100mb base install. > > run apt-get install xfce4 > > Debian will then get the necessary dependencies > to run xfce4. You probably can run xfce and > other apps in less than 500Mb rather than 2Gb. > > I can fit X, icewm, gnome-terminal plus devel > apps and libraries to compile a kernel in less > than 500Mb. > Too late for that advice, but maybe I'll apply that when I get to set up a friend's network :D. Thanks. I don't reget hitting the yellow light, though, 'coz that's where the real innovation comes in ;P... > > I think you are referring "fat" as the eye candy > of gnome. > Yes, among other things. But that was what the article was referring to, right? Gnome's (and KDE's) bloat is the most noticed 'fat', and I'm leaving a lot of room for OpenOffice.org's and Moz's blubber too ;P Of course, there are other indications/sources of 'fat', but the appearance issue is the most visible of all (and of course, it should be ;) Cheers, Zakame -- |=-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------=| || Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D || || http://zakame.homelinux.org ICQ UIN: 33236644 || || Location: Daet, Camarines Norte Running Linux 2.6 || |=----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------=| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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